That worked perfectly, thanks for all your help people.
2007/10/16, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 12:10 -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > > I just installed it so i did not have any useful data. I must admit > > though, i did not stop the database before unmerging and emerging, > > however i did run emerge --config afterwards. > > > > You should have stopped the database before you remove the database > files... Did you ever stop the database? If not, you're still running > 8.0 while your emerge installed 8.2 files and then the database > naturally got confused. The --config probably tried to connect to the > running 8.0 service and told it do do something with the installed 8.2 > files. > > It doesn't really matter *what* happened exactly. The point is you > should just start over. > > * Stop postgres. kill all postgres processes. > * unmerge postgress > * remove /var/lib/postgresql > * re-install posgress > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > >
